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Post by herron on Dec 11, 2005 19:20:20 GMT -5
Ron H....I'm afraid I don't have any politically correct (or otherwise) snow-persons,  but I do have a set of tracks in the snow......  |
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Post by Randy on Dec 11, 2005 20:02:58 GMT -5
Looks like a couple walked through there. The person on the left had smaller feet. Possibly a child or a woman. Is that snow dusting up or mist?
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Post by PeterW on Dec 11, 2005 20:36:53 GMT -5
Ron Herron wrote:
This picture leaves me with a slightly unsatisfied feeling. Sorry, Ron, I don't want to run it down, but I want to get hold of that set of tracks, move them over to the right at the bottom and curve them up to lead into the opening in the background trees.
Very unthoughtful of the people who made them not to think of the photographer who would come along and take a picture ;D.
Peter
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Post by herron on Dec 11, 2005 21:09:44 GMT -5
Here's a little different take on it, made it cooler and actually took down the contrast in Photoshop, and the prints in the distance show up a bit better, but not much (they actually went between the trees as you suggested, Peter, they just don't start out centered in the frame -- I would have liked that too, with more of a curve at the beginning, but I couldn't very well make them walk it over ). There's something about it in this revised form that seems too cold (and not just "winter" cold, if you know what I mean)....I don't like it as well....  Randy, they are two different size footprints (very observant!)...the tracks on the left are my wife's and the ones on the right belong to her father. It had been lightly snowing most of the day, but it was getting a bit warmer out when I took this picture, and that is a fog coming off the snow! |
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Post by kamera on Dec 12, 2005 15:06:13 GMT -5
Hi Ron,
Other than the contrast being a little weak, I like the curves the footprints make but also wish they showed up a little better closer to the trees. It came out so much better than my shot using the B&W C41 Kodak.
I appreciate the pic even more now that you said who the walkers were as I can visualize father and daughter strolling together just enjoying the snow and each other's presence.
Ron Head
Kalamazoo, MI
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Post by PeterW on Dec 12, 2005 15:44:59 GMT -5
OK,
Now let's see someone produce a picture (without faking in Photoshop) of a single set of footprints going up to a solitary tree, one foot making prints each side, and then carrying on normally.
When I was at college a student in the photographic club produced such a picture and put it in the club exhibition with just a question mark as the title. We all had a week to guess how it was made. Lots of guesses, but no-one got it right.
Then his girlfriend, another student named Angela, let us into the secret. The idea, and the footprints, were hers. Now guess how she did it.
Remember, we didn't even have computers in those days, let alone Photoshop, and he didn't double-print anything. This was a straight enlargement from the 6x6 neg.
If no-one gets it I'll tell you at the end of the week.
Peter
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Post by herron on Dec 12, 2005 16:22:55 GMT -5
Ron H: I know. I was disappointed the tracks kind of fade out in the distance, but I only made one exposure, and it was a tough one to get, what with all that snow contrasting so sharply with the dark trees. I took my exposure reading closer to the tree line, so the snow just gets blown out in most areas. After seeing it, I wished the day had not been so overcast, because a strong shadow might have made the tracks stand out. My favorite critic (my wife) likes it though..I think she enjoys the fact I caught it at all.  She spends a lot of time walking and talking to her father when we visit, and this reminds her of that. He will be 89 in a few weeks and, even though he seems to be in great shape, she knows how fragile things can get. She lost her mother to a miserable bout with cancer 29 years ago. It made her even closer to her Dad. ;D On a brighter note, Peter is that a wide-set track or a normal track? Does it expand to go around the tree, or does it look as if the tree was not there at all? |
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Post by PeterW on Dec 12, 2005 16:34:09 GMT -5
Normal track, Ron, which widens to go round the tree.
Peter
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Post by herron on Dec 12, 2005 16:51:24 GMT -5
My son once made a set of tracks in the snow around a tree, using one of his brother's crutches with a shoe attached. The crutch helped him stand, and the effect was quite funny (no pictures, unfortunately), but the track was rather wide, as if it were the most bow-legged walker you have ever seen!   ;D |
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Post by PeterW on Dec 16, 2005 12:59:27 GMT -5
Well, it's the end of the week, and no-one got it, though Ron was probably nearest, so I'll tell you.
Angela was a tall very supple girl. She walked up to the tree, widening her tracks over the last few paces, to finsh with her left foot halfway round the tree. Then she held on to the tree trunk, which was about 18 inches diameter, eased her right foot through and stood behind the tree where her prints wouldn't show. Then she reached back with her right foot to make a print three-quarters of the way round the tree, then carried on walking, narrowing her tracks to normal over about three paces. Her boyfriend took the picture of her walking away when she was about 20 yards past the tree.
If it's of interest his camera was a 1930s Voigtländer Bessa 6x9.
Peter
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but I do have a set of tracks in the snow......
She spends a lot of time walking and talking to her father when we visit, and this reminds her of that. He will be 89 in a few weeks and, even though he seems to be in great shape, she knows how fragile things can get. She lost her mother to a miserable bout with cancer 29 years ago. It made her even closer to her Dad.
;D